On 13.04.2012 19:54, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 04/13/12 11:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> upower provides mechanisms, not policy, like what to do on low-power, >> lid-close, any-other-type-of-power-event. Those are triggered by a policy >> agent running in the desktop session, like gnome-power-manager. > > > That is exactly what I want to verify on the command line. I don't > want to drain the laptop battery and hope for gnome-power-manager > (just as an example), but to send the appropriate message to upowerd. > > I understand that there are some 160+ chars dbus-send command lines > for this, but this is pretty inconvenient. upower could do this. > It already talks with upowerd. This might be just a small extension.
No it isn't. upower is a command line utility to query power management related information. It is not a policy agent/daemon. upstream is pretty adamant about separating policy from mechanism, so such a policy won't move into upower(d) and this probably means we'll have to tag this bug wontfix. Such a policy agent for the console would have to be developed independently, or you use a setup as I described earlier, based on acpid/acpi-support/pm-utils. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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